Performance Studies Research Focus Group

Performance Studies Research Focus Group

PAST EVENTS

Spring 2006

TALK: Re-membering Revolution: Recent Trends in Cuban Drama
Yael Prizant (Theater, UCLA)
Thursday, April 20 / 6:00 PM / Old Gym, 101C

 

TALK: Performance and the New Social Order
Marko Peljhan (Department of Art, UCSB)
Tuesday, May 2 / 5:30 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB
https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/research/events/event_files/past/_winter06/peljhan.html

 

TALK: New Playwrights and New Acting Paradigms in Argentina
Gustavo Geirola (Spanish, Whittier College)
Thursday, May 18 / 6:00 PM / Old Gym, 101C
more info

 

TALK: Powerful Performatives: From “America” to “Hemispheric”
Diana Taylor (Performance Studies, NYU)
Tuesday, May 23 / 6:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

Winter 2006

 

CANCELED TALK: Performance and the New Social Order
Marko Peljhan (Department of Art, UCSB)
Thursday, January 19 / 5:00 PM / Old Gym 101C CANCELED

 

TALK: Electric Wonder Shows
Fred Nadis (Visiting Researcher, UCSB)
Tuesday, February 7 / 5:00 PM / Old Gym 101C

 

SYMPOSIUM: Performance Studies
Dick Hebdige (Art, Film Studies and IHC, UCSB); Catherine Cole (Dramatic Art and IHC, UCSB); Leo Cabranes-Grant (Spanish and Dramatic Art, UCSB)
Wednesday, February 22 / 6:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

 

TALK: Sphere of Feelings: Theatricality in Chinese Aesthetics and Beyond
Wednesday, March 1//6:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

Fall 2005

 

Sep. & Nov.
P.S. Graduate Group

 

Depending on the Kindness of Strangers: The Youthing of Midlife Actresses in Filmed Performance
Heather Rasche (Rutgers University)
Monday, November 28 / 5:00 PM / Drama “Voice Room, HSSB 1105
more info

 

Alchemy and The Magic of Theater
Sue-Ellen Case (UCLA)
Wednesday, Nov. 16 / 5:00 PM / Free / Drama “Voice” Room, HSSB 1105

 

From Ethnos to Ethos: Theater, Facilitation, and Nation Formation in the Balkans and Israel/Palestine
Sonja Arsham Kuftinec (University of Minnesota)
Monday, Oct. 24 / 5:00 PM / Free / Drama “Voice” Room, HSSB 1105

Spring 2005

 

RESIDENCY: Todd London (New Dramatists, NYC)
Friday-Saturday, May 20-21, 2005

 

TALK: Latina/o Theatre Today
Anne García-Romero (Dramatic Art, UCSB), Caridad Svich (Theatre and Dance, UCSD) and Ricardo Bracho (Chicano Studies, UCSB)
Thursday, April 28 / 5:00 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, Free

 

SEMINAR: Derrida, Artaud and Theatre
Eric Prieto (French and Italian, UCSB)
Wednesday, April 20 / 4:30 PM / Free / IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB, 6th floor

 

TALK: Public Domains: Politics and Performance
Annette Levine, Jason Scott and Ottiliana Rolandsson
Wednesday, April 6 / 4:30 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor

 

Winter 2005

 

SEMINAR: Interscapes: Performing the Intercultural in Renaissance and Baroque Drama
Leo Cabranes-Grant (Dramatic Art and Spanish and Portuguese, UCSB)
Tuesday, March 15 / 4:00 PM / Free / IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB, 6th Floor

 

SEMINAR: The Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine; Marvin Carlson (City University of New York)
Thursday, February 24 / 5:00 PM / Free / Old Gym, Room 101C, UCSB

 

TALK: Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics; Tejumola Olaniyan (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Tuesday, January 18 / 6:30 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th Floor / Free

Fall 2004

 

TALK: Waves of Performance: Surf Music, Surf as Dance, Timothy Cooley & Judy Bauerlein
Tuesday, December 7 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th Floor / Free

 

TALK: South African Theatre in Post-Apartheid Democracy, Malcolm Purkey (Artistic Director,
Market Theatre of Johannesburg, South Africa)
Tuesday, November 23 / 5:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor / Free

 

TALK: Living Better Electrically: Ronald Reagan, General Electric, and the Fiat of Electricity, Timothy Raphael (Rutgers University)
Tuesday, October 26 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th Floor/ Free

 

TALK: Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Contemporary Performance, Petra Kuppers (Bryant College) & Carrie Sandahl (Florida State University)
Tuesday, October 12 / 4:00 PM / HSSB 1105 (“Voice Room”), in the Performing Arts Wing* / Free / Refreshments

Winter 2004

 

A Seminar in Honor of Bert States
Facilitator: Alice Rayner (Stanford University)
Tuesday, January 27 / 7-9 PM / FREE
Voice Room, Performing Arts Wing of HSSB, Room 1105, UCSB